AuthorTopic: On Rails Space Shooter Demo (Read 1199 times)

Is up and should be visible in all clusters, so no need to do anything special, just load your normal HeroBlade.

This is an on rails space shooter example. It's using all old HJ Ref art, so no making fun of it, but for one texture, some inverted terrain, 6 rocks, and 4 particle effects, it could look a whole lot worse. I went for kind of a retro feel. But the particles are pretty well done, and there's some great tech in there to do some interesting things. I also made all of the sounds in garage band, so no making fun of that either.

This took pretty much 2 scripters 2 weeks to put in place, and then some polish and bug fixing. Anyways, check it out for some quick fun an some great reference material.

We fixed two issues with the shooter: Massive amounts of pathing obstacles were set to the wrong physics type and causing lag, and awareness was sometimes causing you to become aware of other player's base character, which means you would catch a glimpse of our silly 1980s HeroEngine Dude flying in space sometimes. :-)

We also changed the tuning to speed you up more and more every lap, and to make boxes worth 5x the points of the larger obstacles, they were only 2x.

It's surprisingly fun now. We have competitions in the office on Fridays. :-)